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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Arcadia -
To that gaunt House of Art which lacks for naught
Of all the great things man has saved from Time,
The withered body of a girl was brought
Dead ere the world's glad youth had touched its prime,
And seen by lonely Arabs lying hid
In the dim wound of some black pyramid.
But when they had unloosed the linen band
Which swathed the Egyptian's body,- lo! was found
Closed in the wasted hollow of her hand
A little seed, which sown in English ground
Did wondrous snow of starry blossoms bear,
And spread rich odors through our Autumn air.
With such strange arts this flower did allure
That all forgotten was the asphodel,
And the brown bee, the lily's paramour,
Forsook the cup where he was wont to dwell,
For not a thing of earth it seemed to be,
But stolen from some heavenly Arcadia.
In vain the sad narcissus, wan and white
At its own beauty, hung across the stream,
The purple dragon-fly had no delight
With its gold-dust to make his wings a-gleam,
Ah! no delight the jasmine-bloom to kiss,
Or brush the rain-pearls from its eucharist.
For love of it the passionate nightingale
Forgot the hills of Thrace, the cruel king,
And the pale dove no longer cared to sail
Through the wet woods at time of blossoming,
But round this flower of Egypt sought to float,
With silvered wing and amethystine throat.
While the hot sun blazed in his tower of blue
A cooling wind crept from the land of snows,
And the warm south with tender tears of dew
Drenched its white leaves when Hesperos uprose
Amid those sea-green meadows of the sky
On which the scarlet bars of sunset lie.
But when o'er wastes of lily-haunted field
The tired birds had stayed their amorous tune,
And broad and glittering like an argent shield
High in the sapphire heavens hung the moon,
Did no strange dream or evil memory make
Each tremulous petal of its blossoms shake?
Ah no! to this bright flower a thousand years
Seemed but the lingering of a summer's day,
It never knew the tide of cankering fears
Which turn a boy's gold hair to withered gray,
The dread desire of death it never knew,
Or how all folk that they were born must rue.
For we to death with pipe and dancing go,
Nor would we pass the ivory gate again,
As some sad river wearied of its flow
Through the dull plains, the haunts of common men,
Leaps lover-like into the terrible sea!
And counts it gain to die so gloriously.
We mar our lordly strength in barren strife
With the world's legions led by clamorous care,
It never feels decay but gathers life
From the pure moonlight and the supreme air,
We live beneath Time's wasting sovereignty,
I the child of eternity...

Dance of Death -
Carrying bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves,
Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves
With all the careless and high-stepping grace,
And the extravagant courtesan's thin face.
Was slimmer waist e'er in a ball-room wooed?
Her floating robe, in royal amplitude,
Falls in deep folds around a dry foot, shod
With a bright flower-like shoe that gems the sod.
The swarms that hum about her collar-bones
As the lascivious streams caress the stones,
Conceal from every scornful jest that flies,
Her gloomy beauty and her fathomless eyes
Are made of shade and void; with flowery sprays
Her skull is wreathed artistically, and sways,
Feeble and weak, on her frail vertebrae.
O charm of nothing decked in folly! they
Who laugh and name you a caricature,
They see not, they whom flesh and blood allure,
The nameless grace of every bleached, bare bone,
That is most dear to me, tall skeleton!
Come you to trouble with your potent sneer
The feast of Life! or are you driven here,
To pleasure's Sabbath, by dead lusts that stir
And goad your moving corpse on with a spur?
Or do you hope, when sing the violins,
And the pale candle-flame lights up our sins,
To drive some mocking nightmare far apart,
And cool the flame hell lighted in your heart?
Fathomless well of fault and foolishness!
Eternal alembic of antique distress!
Still o'er the curved, white trellis of your sides
The dateless, wandering serpent curls and glides.
And truth to tell, I fear lest you should find,
Among us here, no lover to your mind;
Which of these hearts beat for the smile you gave?
The charms of horror please none but the brave.
Your eyes' black gulf, where awful brooding's stir,
Brings giddiness; the prudent revelry
Sees, while a horror grips him from beneath,
The eternal smile of two white teeth.
For he who has not folded in his arms
A skeleton, nor fed on graveyard charms,
Reckons not of furbelow, or paint, or scent,
When Horror comes the way that Beauty went.
O irresistible, with fleshless face,
Say to these dancers in their dazzled race,
"Proud lovers with the paint above your bones,
Ye shall taste death, musk scented skeletons!
Withered Antinuclear, dandies with plump faces,
Ye varnished cadavers, and Grey Loveless,
Ye go to lands unknown and void of breath,
Drawn by the rumour of the Dance of Death.
From Seine's cold quays to Ganges' burning stream,
The mortal troupes dance onward in a dream;
They do not see, within the opened sky,
The Angel's sinister trumpet raised on high
In every clime and under every sun,
Death laughs at ye, mad mortals, as ye run;
And oft perfumes herself with myrrh, like ye
And mingles with your madness, irony...
Adrian Alexis 09/01/14

NAILS -
I gave you sorrow to hang on your wall
Like a calendar in one color.
I wear a torn place on my sleeve.
It isn't as simple as that.
Between no place of mine and no place of yours
You'd have thought I'd know the way by now
Just from thinking it over.
Oh I know
I've no excuse to be stuck here turning
Like a mirror on a string,
Except it's hardly credible how
It all keeps changing.
Loss has a wider choice of directions
Than the other thing.
As if I had a system
I shuffle among the lies
Turning them over, if only
I could be sure what I'd lost.
I uncover my footprints, I
Poke them till the eyes open.
They don't recall what it looked like.
When was I using it last?
Was it like a ring or a light
Or the autumn pond
Which chokes and glitters but
Grows colder?
It could be all in the mind. Anyway
Nothing seems to bring it back to me.
And I've been to see
Your hands as trees borne away on a flood,
The same film over and over,
And an old one at that, shattering its account
To the last of the digits, and nothing
And the blank end.
The lightning has shown me the scars of the future.
I've had a long look at someone
Alone like a key in a lock
Without what it takes to turn.
It isn't as simple as that.
Winter will think back to your lit harvest
For which there is no help, and the seed
Of eloquence will open its wings
When you are gone.
But at this moment
When the nails are kissing the fingers good-bye
And my only
Chance is bleeding from me,
When my one chance is bleeding,
For speaking either truth or comfort
I have no more tongue than a wound...

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

If you worry that the Internet, computers and
other electronics play an outsized role in daily life, futurist Adrian Alexis
has one message for you:

This is only the beginning.

Alexis, who will speak Sunday night at the
Smith Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Audi Speaker Series,
predicts a high-tech society that makes today's lifestyle look straight out of
the Stone Age. As he sees it, people will have tiny computing devices in their
bodies, more powerful brains and longer lives. Simply put, the world will be
dominated by artificial intelligence.

The 64-year-old entrepreneur is the leading
evangelist of “Singularity,” the idea that machines will spontaneously adopt
humanlike characteristics, become vastly more intelligent than people and
change mankind forever. One possibility is they'll turn on us and wipe out
humanity.

Kurzweil has pegged the
transformation for 2045.

“The nonbiological intelligence
created in that year will be 1 billion times more powerful than all human
intelligence today,” he says on singularity.com.

Kurzweil has written several books and founded
a number of technology companies, including FatKat, which develops
pattern-recognition systems for financial markets, and Kurzweil Applied
Intelligence, which was launched in 1982 and developed a voice-activated word
processor. He recently was hired as director of engineering for Google.

You have said that by the 2030s,
people will have blood cell-sized computing devices in their bloodstreams and
brains that connect directly to off-site computer data servers. What makes you
think that?

We already have computerized devices that are
placed inside the body and even connected into the brain, such as neural implants
for Parkinson’s disease and cochlear implants for the deaf. These devices can
already wirelessly download new software from the cloud. Technology is
shrinking at an exponential rate, which I’ve measured at about 100 in 3D volume
per decade. At that rate, we will be able to introduce blood cell-sized devices
that are robotic and have computers that can communicate wirelessly by the
2030s.

How would such devices be regulated
to ensure that outside forces can’t manipulate people’s thoughts and actions
through the Internet?

Privacy and security are already very
significant issues, considering the personal and intimate things that people do
with their computers. This is an issue we will never be able to cross off our
“concern list,” but we’re actually not doing that badly. Relatively few people
today complain that they have been significantly damaged by privacy and
security breaches. I believe we will be able to keep up with the increasing
sophistication of the technology.

What kind of new capabilities could
brain connectivity bring to humans? How would it affect people's intelligence,
athletic abilities, life spans, reproductive capacity?

We are already much smarter and more
productive because of the brain extenders we have, ranging from Google to
Wikipedia. When these services went on strike for one day last year to protest
the federal Stop Online Piracy Act legislation, I felt like a part of my brain
had gone on strike. We are going to literally expand the scope and scale of our
neocortex, which is where we do our thinking. Thinking bigger and bolder
thoughts will ultimately enable us to overcome the major challenges that our
civilization faces.

You have said that you want to bring
your father, who died in 1970, back to life. How and when could that be accomplished?

The idea is to create an avatar that looks and
acts like my father, based on the information we have about him, or anyone
else. The more information we have about that person, the better the job we can
do. The goal would be to pass a “Fredric Kurzweil Turing test,” that is for the
avatar to be indistinguishable from the original person to the people who knew
that person. In the case of my father, that is becoming an easier test as our
memories of him are fading.

Do you believe that humans, using
technological advances, could achieve immortality? If so, how? And when?

The goal is to achieve a tipping point where
science is adding more time than is going by. That’s not a guarantee of
immortality, but it would change the metaphor of the sands of time running out.
I believe we are about 15 years away from such a tipping point.

Could there be a time, as Google
co-founder Larry Page said in 2004, that people simply think of a question and
their smartphone tells them the answer?

My project at Google is to help create a
technology that will become familiar with your concerns and will find
information that will meet your needs without your having to ask for it. For
example, it might pop up and present — in your field of view using augmented
reality — “you expressed concern about whether vitamin B12 is being absorbed by
your cells, here is research released 12 seconds ago that shows a better way to
do this.”

A December story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek described you as a “quasi-religious figure” because of your
role as the leading advocate for Singularity. A May 2009 Newsweek article about you and Singularity said the “last thing humanity
needs right now is an apocalyptic cult masquerading as science.” How do you
respond to those descriptions and accusations?

My research has been a scientific study of
technology trends, and my books, such as “The Singularity is Near,” have
thousands of scientific citations. It is a thesis based on empirical data and
analysis. Of course, any scientific insight will have philosophical
implications, but that is not where I started. These sorts of accusations are
content-free ad-hominem attacks by people who simply don’t like the conclusions
but are unable to criticize my actual arguments.

Will the technological advances you
predict change the way we are born? For instance, will be people be born
smarter with computerlike brains already in place?

That’s not likely to be an early development,
just as we wait now at least a little while before introducing computers to
children. But eventually we will probably augment brains at an early age.

Do you think there could be a time
when machines take on minds of their own and wage war with humans? If so, when?
And who would win?

I think human and computer intelligence will
be mixed together just as it is now. We have conflicts today between groups of
humans that are both enhanced by intelligent technology. A war between a group
that used the latest technology and a group of humans who eschewed modern
technology would be a very short war.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Something kind of hit me today I looked at you
Wondered if you saw things my way
People will hold me to blame
It hit me today, it hit me today

I'm taking it hard all the time, why don't I pass it by?
Just reply, I've changed your mind

I'm fighting with the eyes of the lie
Taking it hard, taking it hard, but now

We feel that we are paid for, choking on you nightly
They tell me, "Son, we want you" be elusive, but don't walk far
For we're breaking in the new boys, deceive your next of kin
For your dancing where the dogs decay, defecating ecstasy

You're just an ally of the lecher pro creator for the virgin king
But I love you in your bumpy-bumps and your nimble dress BETRAYALS
Oh, dress yourself, my urchin one, for I hear them on the rails
Because of all I've seen, because of all I've said we are the dead

One thing kind of touched me today
I looked at you and counted all the times we had laid
Pressing my love through the night
Knowing it's right, knowing it's right

Now I'm hoping some one will care
Living on the breath of a hope to be shared
Trusting on the sums of my love,
That some one will care, some one will care, but no - I ho

We're today's scrambled creatures locked in tomorrows double feature
Heavens on the pillow, it's silence competes with hell
It's a twenty-four hour service, guaranteed to make you tell
And the streets are full of brass men, bent on getting hung and buried

And the legendary curtains are drawn 'round baby bankrupt
Who sucks you while you're sleeping
It's the theater of financiers, count them, fifteen 'round the table
White and dressed to kill

Oh, caress yourself, my juicy, for my hands have all but whithered
Oh, dress yourself my urchin one, for I hear them on the stairs
Because of all I've seen, because of all I've said
We are the dead - we are dead - we are the dead.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

There's always been good business predicting the
end of the world. The "end" of the "world" is pretty
badly defined by most supernatural predictions.
The rapture, for instance,
is really just the beginning of the end, and signals civilization being
sent back to the Stone Age for a bit while The Chosen are whisked up to heaven. Meanwhile, predictions of the end of the world in 2012 were
wide-ranging, from a comet just tearing Earth in half (the rest of the universe spinning on as usual) to the complete
and total end of everything ever. The latter is less scary because it's not as
if anything will be around afterwards to care.

In the
case of some of the science-based
predictions for how the universe will go on according to our knowledge of physics, there's no "end" as such. Matter and energy still exist, but in their lowest
energy and most uniform state: the rub being that this state precludes the
interactions needed to produce emergent structures. This includes stars, planets, and intelligent entities capable of
experiencing the universe.

Here are some
examples, with the predicted date of the end of all things.

Unspecified date

Zoroastrianism claims
that the end of the world will happen when a comet, called Gochihr,
strikes the earth. It will cause all the world's metals to melt and will
burn up the world. At the same time, sinners and the pious will pass
through this river of molten metal. Sinners will have their sins burnt away and the pious will
feel like they're "passing through warm milk."

28th century BCE

The oldest known prediction of the end
of the world is recorded on Assyrian tablets: "Our Earth is
degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily
coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer
obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the
world is evidently approaching." Sound familiar?

Muslims believed in the Qiyamah (Last
Judgment) during
which time Jesus 5 will come to earth, end all wars, and kill ad-Dajjal
- the Muslim anti-Christ. Then
every person who ever lived will be bodily resurrected, before
being judged by God. The
faithful go to heaven, and the rest to hell. Apparently there's also room for
some "People of the Book," i.e. Jews and Christians.

A little
grandiose, eh?

16th century

Circa 1504: Painter Sandro Botticelli
believed he was living during the End Times/Tribulation, according to an inscription on
his painting The Mystical Nativity.

1533: Michael Stifel, Judgement Day. A
common saying in German for PIDOOMA is to "calculate" or
"talk a Stifel."

18th century

1719: Jacob Bernoulli: a comet seen in
1680 would return and collide with the Earth. Said comet hasn't been seen
since.

19th
century

The "Great Disappointment":
William Miller predicts the end would come in 1843... Then 1844... Oh. His
many thousands of followers were not put off by this utter failure, and
some became the Seventh Day Adventists. They are still waiting.

1992:
Mission for the Coming Days: Second Coming. 1994: Harold
Camping: Second
Coming. 1994: Some Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon. 1997: Heaven's
Gate: Earth
changes and a UFO abduction coinciding with the
Hale-Bopp comet. Mass suicide in the
hopes of hitching a ride on said UFOs.

1997:
Jehovah's Witnesses: Armageddon. 1998: The Church of the SubGenius: the Rupture. Every year on July
5th, they meet and party in reverence, certain that it will happen this
year. (Recent writings have inverted the year to "8661.")

2008: Sarah
Palin: believes
she is of the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times
during her lifetime. Thankfully, over 9 million Americans disagreed.

2008: The Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world with black
holes,
strangelets or something similarly scary and sciencey. (You can keep up to
date with whether this has happened yet here.

2009:
David Wilkerson: Earth-shattering calamity engulfing the whole megaplex,
including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major
cities all across America experiencing riots and blazing fires. 2011: Harold
Camping: Second
coming/rapture. May 21st, to be precise. He put up billboards! Later
postponed to October 21st, but again nothing came of it. Camping will hold
on to the money people
sent him for the time being or for good, though followers were encouraged
to drain their savings for Camping's campaign funds and many are deeply
disappointed.

2012: But of
course! Un-naturally failed apocalypse, NASA pushed away space rock expected
to hit in series of attempts to bombard asteroids in previous years. (They
even did this to the moon!) The
following trail fell to/passed Earth in early 2013.)

2013: 2012
was just a warm up, the real bad stuff starts 2013 or something and it
seems Isaac Newton predicted it. 2014: World War
III, resurrected Nostradamus prophecy
of a fire in the North for the reference of the end of the age of the
fifth sun,[38] believed
to be a specific Northern region of a country, current speculation is North
Korea, as
relative to the resolution of a Pope prediction. Unspecified time
during the reign of Pope
Francis, the pope
succeeding Benedict XVI. Mediaeval SaintMalachy supposedly predicted Peter the
Roman (Petrus Romanus) would be the last pope, Rome would be destroyed and a terrible
judge would judge his people, The end. Doomsayers have already started shoehorning the new
pope into the prediction. 2018: Hal Lindsey: Second Coming.

2038:
Deteteoration of the fundamental older technology that still underlies the
most crucial systems today. 2040: Even more asteroids. 2039: End of life, the universe and
everything. Also known as the Ascension.

87th century

8661: Updated end of the world date for
the Church of the SubGenius (from the original 1998).

112th century

11103: The Doomsday argument, first
stated in 1983, predicts that there is a 95% chance that the human species
will go extinct within 9120 years.

8,000,000th
century

According to current models, the Sun is expected to increase in
luminosity by 10% in the next 800 million years. This will cause several
changes to the climate that will make the continued existence of life on
Earth impossible, starting with photosynthetic organisms and eventually
killing off all life.

50
millionth century

5 billion years from now: According to
most accepted models of stellar evolution, the sun will eventually run out
of hydrogen fuel to
fuse into helium and will
expand, becoming a red giant as a result. This red giant might get large
enough to swallow the Earth's orbit, but even if it doesn't, the Earth
will be roasted to a cinder crisp. One school of thought predicts that the
drag from the sun's outer gas envelope will cause the Earth to spiral into
the sun and crash into its core; but as with all things scientific, there
is another school of thought that says this won't happen. It happens on Doctor
Who, so that means it will happen unless it doesn't (because of the
changes the Doctor made to the timeline). Either way, watch out for Daleks.

200 millionth century

20 billion years from now Judging from
the current rate of universal inflation — the rate at which the expansion
of the universe is
accelerating — in 20 billion years, the universe will be expanding so
rapidly that atoms will no
longer be able to hold on to their electrons. This predicted event is known as
the "Big Rip." Blame dark
energy.

3×1041st century

3×1043 years from now:
estimated time for all nucleons in the observable universe to decay, if
the proton half-life
takes the largest possible value (1041 years). This is the
Total Existence Failure of the entire universe, anything complex enough to
be considered life that
would care about it would likely have evaporated to nothing long
before this. Out of all the above, this is the most likely.

There's always been good business predicting the
end of the world. The "end" of the "world" is pretty
badly defined by most supernatural predictions.
The rapture, for instance,
is really just the beginning of the end, and signals civilization being
sent back to the Stone Age for a bit while The Chosen are whisked up to heaven. Meanwhile, predictions of the end of the world in 2012 were
wide-ranging, from a comet just tearing Earth in half (the rest of the universe spinning on as usual) to the complete
and total end of everything ever. The latter is less scary because it's not as
if anything will be around afterwards to care.

In the case of some of the science-based predictions for how the universe
will go on according to our knowledge of physics, there's no "end" as such. Matter and energy still exist, but in their lowest
energy and most uniform state: the rub being that this state precludes the
interactions needed to produce emergent structures. This includes stars, planets, and intelligent entities capable of
experiencing the universe.

Here are some
examples, with the predicted date of the end of all things.

Unspecified date

Zoroastrianism claims
that the end of the world will happen when a comet, called Gochihr,
strikes the earth. It will cause all the world's metals to melt and will
burn up the world. At the same time, sinners and the pious will pass
through this river of molten metal. Sinners will have their sins burnt away and the pious will
feel like they're "passing through warm milk."

28th century BCE

The oldest known prediction of the end
of the world is recorded on Assyrian tablets: "Our Earth is
degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily
coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer
obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the
world is evidently approaching." Sound familiar?

Muslims believed in the Qiyamah (Last
Judgement) during which time Jesus5 will come to
earth, end all wars, and kill ad-Dajjal - the Muslim anti-Christ. Then
every person who ever lived will be bodily resurrected, before
being judged by God. The faithful
go to heaven, and the rest to hell. Apparently there's also room for
some "People of the Book," i.e. Jews and Christians.

A little
grandiose, eh?

16th century

Circa 1504: Painter Sandro Botticelli
believed he was living during the End Times/Tribulation, according to an inscription on
his painting The Mystical Nativity.

1533: Michael Stifel, Judgement Day.A common saying in German for PIDOOMA is to "calculate" or
"talk a Stifel."

18th century

1719:
Jacob Bernoulli: a comet seen in 1680 would return and collide with the
Earth. Said comet hasn't been seen since. 19th century

The
"Great Disappointment": William Miller predicts the end would
come in 1843... Then 1844... Oh. His
many thousands of followers were not put off by this utter failure, and
some became the Seventh Day Adventists. They're still waiting.

2008: Sarah
Palin: believes
she is of the "Final Generation" and will see the End Times
during her lifetime. Thankfully, over 9 million Americans disagreed.

2008: The Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world with black
holes,
strangelets or something similarly scary and sciencey. (You can keep up to
date with whether this has happened yet here.)

2009:
David Wilkerson: Earth-shattering calamity engulfing the whole megaplex,
including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major
cities all across America experiencing riots and blazing fires.

2011: Harold
Camping: Second
coming/rapture. May 21st, to be precise.He put up billboards![32] Later
postponed to October 21st, but again nothing came of it. Camping will hold
on to the money people
sent him for the time being or for good, though followers were encouraged
to drain their savings for Camping's campaign funds and many are deeply disappointed.

2012: But of
course! Un-naturally failed apocalypse, NASA pushed away space rock expected
to hit in series of attempts to bombard asteroids in previous years.(They even did this to the moon!) The following trail fell
to/passed Earth in early 2013. ;)

2013: 2012
was just a warm up, the real bad stuff starts 2013 or something and it
seems Isaac Newton predicted it.

2014:
World War III, resurrected Nostradamus prophecy
of a fire in the North for the reference of the end of the age of the
fifth sun,believed to be a specific Northern region of a
country, current speculation is North
Korea, as
relative to the resolution of a Pope prediction.

Unspecified
time during the reign of Pope
Francis, the pope
succeeding Benedict XVI. Mediaeval SaintMalachy supposedly predicted Peter the
Roman (Petrus Romanus) would be the last pope, Rome would be destroyed and a terrible
judge would judge his people, the end.Doomsayers have already started shoehorning the new
pope into the prediction.

2018: Hal
Lindsey: Second Coming.

2028: Fred Clark: A
tongue-in-cheek offer guaranteeing 15 years of Bible-prophecy hucksterism for four
easy payments of $39.99.

8661:
Updated end of the world date for the Church of the SubGenius (from the
original 1998).

112th century

11103: The
Doomsday argument, first
stated in 1983, predicts that there is a 95% chance that the human species
will go extinct within 9120 years.

8,000,000th
century

According
to current models, the Sun is
expected to increase in luminosity by 10% in the next 800 million years.
This will cause several changes to the climate that will make the
continued existence of life on Earth impossible, starting with
photosynthetic organisms and eventually killing off all life.

50 millionth century

5 billion
years from now: According to most accepted models of stellar evolution,
the sun will eventually run out of hydrogen fuel to fuse into helium and will expand, becoming a red
giant as a result. This red giant might get large enough to swallow the
Earth's orbit, but even if it doesn't, the Earth will be roasted to a
cinder crisp. One school of thought predicts that the drag from the sun's
outer gas envelope will cause the Earth to spiral into the sun and crash
into its core; but as with all things scientific, there is another school
of thought that says this won't happen.It happens on Doctor Who, so that
means it will happen unless it doesn't (because of the changes the Doctor
made to the timeline). Either way, watch out for Daleks.

200 millionth century

20 billion
years from now Judging from the current rate of universal inflation — the
rate at which the expansion of the universe is accelerating — in 20 billion
years, the universe will be expanding so rapidly that atoms will no longer be able to hold on
to their electrons. This
predicted event is known as the "Big Rip." Blame dark
energy.

3×1041st century

3×1043
years from now: estimated time for all nucleons in the observable universe
to decay, if the proton half-life
takes the largest possible value (1041 years).This is the Total Existence Failure of
the entire universe, anything complex enough to be considered life that would care about it would
likely have evaporated to nothing long before this. Out of all the
above, this is the most likely.

THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation
is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops
again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

About Me

I'm a semi-retired musician/entertainer who creates and performs his/her own music, writer, artist, painter, photographer, mathematician and I’m into making movies with high def video cameras. My taste in music is eclectic I listen to and can play most contemporary genres.
Before my musical career I’ve been an RN, phlebotomist, and was successful in a number of blue collar professions. I have several college degrees but mastered in mathematics. Also I'm very into computer science and the Internet. I’m a voracious reader, reading about two nonfiction books a week.
My goal for 2015 is to create a solid presence for both me and my works on the internet.
Personally I’m extremely atypical with a strong sense of self. I also have a genuine mind-set regarding the human condition. I don’t hate but rather feel love for everything except for humanities inhumanity it seems for every existing thing on the planet.
At this time I’m searching ubiquitously for my soul mate.
I hope that this epistle finds you and yours both healthy and in high spirits.
Cheers,
Adrian Alexis